David Rambo

David Rambo

Playwright and screenwriter David Rambo has written and produced some of the most popular television of the last twenty years, including CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, V, Revolution, Claws, Will, Tiny Pretty Things, the record-smashing premiere season of Empire, and the TV-movie musical Dolly Parton’s Mountain Magic Christmas. He is the author of the plays The Lady with All the Answers (off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theatre starring Judith Ivey; Lortel nomination), God’s Man in Texas, The Ice Breaker, an all-new book for Lerner and Loewe’s Paint Your Wagon, and the Cuban Missile Crisis drama The Tug of War, commissioned by L.A. Theatre Works. His work has been widely produced at theatres throughout the country, including The Old Globe, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Geffen Playhouse, Denver Center Theatre, Alliance Theatre, and Pasadena Playhouse. In addition, he adapted several classic screenplays for live performance, including All About Eve, Casablanca, Adam’s Rib, (for L.A.T.W.’s “The Play’s the Thing”on NPR) and Sunset Boulevard. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and chairs the Western Council of the Entertainment Community Fund.